National retailers that don't accept American Express

Given the new popularity of the Amex SPG card and the ever-popular Amex Gold 2% and Amex Costco card, I thought it would be useful to have a thread where we can keep track of national retailers that do not accept American Express. but accept Mastercard and/or Visa

Please reply with ones you know of and I will add them to this post, so other RFDers can have a resource.

As a matter of note - I have never been to an national chain eat-in restaurant or gas station (so far) that did not accept American Express...

*Update* Smittys is one!
*Update* Removed Tim Hortons and McDonalds and Subway since they now take Amex. Added DQ. Removed Zellers since they are shut down.

To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -- E. E. Cummings

Hm.... Starbucks takes AMEX.... At least all the ones that I've been to.

Weird they did not for me... usually this is a national thing...

I know that Wendy's, Subway and KFC doesn't take AMEX though (although in the case of KFC I have seen some DT that do take it).

thx

To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -- E. E. Cummings

I wonder if some national chains allow their local franchise owner to determine things like this.

At my local Canadian Tire, the sticker on the pump at the gas bar displays an Amex logo but I have never personally used my Amex at the gas pump. However, when I went to use my Amex in the store in the same Canadian Tire complex it told me invalid card type (or something like that) when I swiped my Amex in the self-checkout lane. (edit. Maybe it was a glitch because they recently upgraded to chip readers in the self-checkout lanes. I'll try again sometime in the future. /edit)

"Your Independant Grocer" does not take Amex. I'm not sure how much of a national chain they are, but there are quite a few here in eastern Ontario. I believe they are part of the Loblaws chain, but I could be wrong.

The one at University and Front does. Actually, the ones I've visited all took AMEX... The smaller chains may allow franchisees to source their own POS. The big chains may have a franchise wide agreement.